Woodpeckers captivate backyard bird watchers with their drumming, digging and clever habits while shaping the forest and providing homes for other wildlife.

For reference, the average woodpecker hits its beak against a tree at an estimated 15 miles an hour, 20 times per second, about 12,000 times a day. According to physicists, for the bird, that is the ...

Discover which woodpeckers mate for life, and which pair up and then split up. Also learn how long pileated woodpeckers live.

Pileated woodpeckers are an iconic woodpecker, Woody the Woodpecker made flesh; they are crow-sized with striking black and white markings, both male and female bear a flashy red crest. Large and ...

The avian world is buzzing with excitement after a video published last week appears to show ivory-billed woodpeckers, birds long thought extinct. The video was taken in 2022 in Louisiana, and members ...

The acorn woodpecker’s social structure, known as clans, consists of a dozen or more birds that will include breeding pairs ...

Woodpeckers are important members of the bird community, pounding out nesting holes later used by other cavity-nesting bird species. Tree cavities are hard to find. When the birds are attacking your ...

A few years ago I wrote a book entitled, “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?” It was a huge hit and became the best selling book of all time, with that exact title. Since then, I have been thinking ...

The 2005 rediscovery announcement led researchers to wonder if the species had managed to survive in areas outside of ...

Now appearing at a bird feeder near you: the hairy woodpecker. It’s common, it’s cool, and it’s often misidentified because it looks so much like its smaller distant cousin, the downy woodpecker.